Category: Teaching

September 29, 2023

Instructional Strategies

Reading Time: 7 minutes What are instructional strategies and why are they important? Whether you recognize it or not, almost everything you do in the classroom is an instructional...

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September 29, 2023

Group Discussion

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ideas for starting group discussion, keeping it going, and evaluating learning afterwards.

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September 29, 2023

Why We Wear Orange and Learn on the Land: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author’s Acknowledgement This post has been written from the perspective of a first-generation settler, living on the traditional lands of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabek, and Haudenosaunee...

Categories Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching Comments: 0

September 28, 2023

Planning and Facilitating Effective Peer Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Peer assessment, also called peer review, is an instructional approach that allows learners to consider, evaluate, and provide feedback on the level, value, or quality...

Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching Comments: 0

September 28, 2023

Faculty Innovation 2022 – a Faculty Member’s Story 2

Reading Time: 6 minutes Amanda Tkaczyk tells about Scaffolded Carousel Assessments.

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September 28, 2023

Faculty Innovation 2022 – a Faculty Member’s Story 1

Reading Time: 6 minutes Diana Degan tells about innovations for the PR Plan assessment in the Public Relations course for the Strategic Marketing Communications program.

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September 28, 2023

Faculty Innovation 2022 – a Faculty Member’s Story 3 

Reading Time: 5 minutes Julia Beddoe and Polina Yakovleva describe the online writing feedback loop which increased their students’ learning from feedback.

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September 26, 2023

Help Students Learn About Conflict in Group Work

Reading Time: 4 minutes Idea and sample resource for building skills to have difficult conversations and address conflict in student group work. 

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September 26, 2023

Gamification and Student Choice in Brick and Stone Mason Programs

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lori Martin first taught at Conestoga in 2014. Since 2019 she has been teaching in Conestoga’s Trades and Apprenticeship, specifically in the Masonry Apprenticeship and...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Gamification/Teaching Comments: 0

September 19, 2023

Teaching in Zoom

Reading Time: 3 minutes At Conestoga, most faculty use Zoom to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use Zoom...

Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams